WEST PALM BEACH —
As soon as defense attorney Jennifer Marshall began telling a jury how Slobodan Dragic met his wife, the 49-year-old man bowed his head and dissolved in tears Wednesday, sobbing so deeply his shoulders shook.

Slobodan and Jelena Dragin knew each other since he was just three years old — they were “this high” as Marshall described it — and throughout his childhood she was the closest person to him outside of his family. He married her when he was 16, and 28 years after that, he was the one who shot the bullets in her head that ended her life.